Happy Young Ranchera Accordion Players in Los Angeles

by Pier Marton | Aug 15, 2010 | Doc, Highlights, Hispanic, Music, Women

Mel Melcon (photographs and recording)
When sisters Aleah Nahue, 10, and Joane, 14, took to practicing their accordions on the sidewalk in downtown Los Angeles, little did they know it would pay off. It started in 2007 after they drowned each other out while practicing inside their mom’s small office on Main Street. Joane went outside to play and left her case open. Someone dropped in a dollar, and they have been cashing in ever since.

From the Los Angeles Times.
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BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus